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With all due respect, ruby is a language, and rvm is a collection of really fragile and dangerous shell script hacks.
by Cloven 15y ago
With all due respect, ruby is a language, and rvm is a collection of really fragile and dangerous shell script hacks.
- jsavimbi 15y agoRVM provides a great service to people who work on multiple projects with multiple dependencies across the range of Rubies. Knowing how complicated that type of development was before RVM, I can attest that it may many people's lives a hell of a lot easier. And if you bother to RTFM, is very easy to understand and employ every day, compared to other parts of the Ruby ecosystem who don't have a talented developer supporting the project and if you cannot understand the basics of RVM, I would be loathe to encourage you to explore those other parts of Ruby world that'll make you feel utterly incompetent.
- yariang 15y agoOuch. That's a series of far-fetched statements. For one gem dependencies can be handled through Bundles. If you mean version dependencies, I will give you that. But just because RVM's goal is great doesn't mean it's execution is flawless. Also, I did RTFM. Do not make assumptions about why I failed to get it to work. There are a million variables when trying to get anything to work (OS, env variables, etc). Lastly, I love feeling utterly incompetent, because it usually means I am learning a lot. Furthermore, what areas of the Ruby language are you talking about exactly?
- boz666 15y agoIt absolutely sucks. Managing multiple versions of Ruby and all the gems is very easy manually. RVM is a buggy collection of extremely fragile and dangerous scripts.